Re: how to write Chinese characters

[Hesham G.]

I guess you mean this :
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-553

We are all waiting for this to be fixed.


Best regards ,
Hesham

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I am new to PDFBox, and I couldn't figure out how to write Chinese characters to pdf file. With the code snippet below, the result pdf file displays some squares and strange symbols, instead of the correct Chinese character. And Acrobat Reader pops up a message, saying "The font '??' contains bad /Widths."

PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, "C:\\Windows\\fonts\\simkai.ttf"); PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

           contentStream.beginText();
           contentStream.setFont(font, 12);
           contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
           contentStream.drawString("\u59D3");
           contentStream.endText();

What am I missing? Is there a code sample for generating PDF files with Asian characters?

Thanks!
-Jian